A spring look from Maria Cornejo's collection, which will be shown in Denver March 16 by MAX.

New York designer Maria Cornejo will be in Denver March 16 for the annual MAX Fashion Show presented by Denver-based retailer Max Martinez.

The runway show will be held along with a cocktail party and reception at the Exdo Event Center and will showcase Zero + Maria Cornejo’s spring/summer 2012 collection. The designer will also make a personal appearance at the MAX store in Cherry Creek North earlier in the day.

Proceeds from both events will be donated to the Mike McMorris Cystic Fibrosis Center in the Breathing Institute at Children’s Hospital Colorado, helping children and families affected by cystic fibrosis.

A vintage VW van and a larger-than-life bullfrog helped set the mood for the 32nd Saturday Night Alive.

Detailed coverage of the 32nd Saturday Night Alive, which netted $630,000 for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, will appear in Thursday’s Denver Post, but the event chaired by Ryta and Steve Sondergard was so much fun that we can’t resist scooping ourselves by offering a preview.

First, there were frogs everywhere, thanks to decorations chair Dan Sharp. Why frogs? Because Three Dog Night was headlining, and one of their best-known songs, “Joy to the World,” begins with the line “Jeremiah was a bullfrog…”